Psychiatric Contours
New African Histories of Madness
1st Edition
Published on 8. March 2024
328 pages
978-1-4780-5932-5 (ISBN)
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Psychiatric Contours investigates new histories of psychiatry, derangement, and agitated subjectivities in colonial and decolonizing Africa.
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Duke University Press
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Nancy Rose Hunt is Professor of History at the University of Florida and author of A Nervous State: Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo, also published by Duke University Press.
Hubertus Büschel is Professor of History at the University of Kassel and author or editor of several books published in German.
Hubertus Büschel is Professor of History at the University of Kassel and author or editor of several books published in German.
Content
List of Figures ix
Preface xi
1. Introduction. Madness, the Psychopolitical, and the Vernacular: Rethinking Psychiatric Histories / Nancy Rose Hunt 1
Part I. Writing, Biography, and the Psychopolitics of Decolonization
1. Archives of False Prophets: Inventing the Future in a West African Psychiatric Hospital / Nana Osei Quarshie 43
2. Missionary Anxieties, Psychopathology, and Decolonization: A Biographical Approach / Richard Hölzl 68
3. Mr. Tanka and Voices: A Cameroonian Patient Writing about Schizophrenia / Hubertus Büschel 93
Part II. Patient Worlds Meet Diagnostic Categories
4. Delirious Words and Social Ambition in French Colonial Madagascar / Raphaël Gallien 135
5. Sickness and Symptoms as Cultural Capacities in Colonial Ideology / Jonathan Sadowsky 156
6. Rethinking Brain Fag Syndrome: Students, Symptoms, and a Late Colonial Survey in Nigeria / Matthew M. Heaton 179
Part III. Practices and Long Durations
7. Casting out Anger: Stress, Possession, and the Everyday in Taita, Kenya / Sloan Mahone 209
8. The Universal, the Particular, and Vernacular Resistance in Colonial Algeria / Richard C. Keller 234
Part IV. Unexpected Archives and Ethnographic Investigations
9. Precarious Families, "Danger," and Psychiatric Internment in 1960s Dakar: An Archive of Kin Letters / Romain Tiquet 257
10. Lorry Dreams and Slave Ship Disintegrations: Motion, Madness, and Incongruent Planes in History / Nancy Rose Hunt 281
Coda. On the Importance of Suffering / Hubertus Büschel 311
Contributors 325
Index 329
Preface xi
1. Introduction. Madness, the Psychopolitical, and the Vernacular: Rethinking Psychiatric Histories / Nancy Rose Hunt 1
Part I. Writing, Biography, and the Psychopolitics of Decolonization
1. Archives of False Prophets: Inventing the Future in a West African Psychiatric Hospital / Nana Osei Quarshie 43
2. Missionary Anxieties, Psychopathology, and Decolonization: A Biographical Approach / Richard Hölzl 68
3. Mr. Tanka and Voices: A Cameroonian Patient Writing about Schizophrenia / Hubertus Büschel 93
Part II. Patient Worlds Meet Diagnostic Categories
4. Delirious Words and Social Ambition in French Colonial Madagascar / Raphaël Gallien 135
5. Sickness and Symptoms as Cultural Capacities in Colonial Ideology / Jonathan Sadowsky 156
6. Rethinking Brain Fag Syndrome: Students, Symptoms, and a Late Colonial Survey in Nigeria / Matthew M. Heaton 179
Part III. Practices and Long Durations
7. Casting out Anger: Stress, Possession, and the Everyday in Taita, Kenya / Sloan Mahone 209
8. The Universal, the Particular, and Vernacular Resistance in Colonial Algeria / Richard C. Keller 234
Part IV. Unexpected Archives and Ethnographic Investigations
9. Precarious Families, "Danger," and Psychiatric Internment in 1960s Dakar: An Archive of Kin Letters / Romain Tiquet 257
10. Lorry Dreams and Slave Ship Disintegrations: Motion, Madness, and Incongruent Planes in History / Nancy Rose Hunt 281
Coda. On the Importance of Suffering / Hubertus Büschel 311
Contributors 325
Index 329
